Nostradamus

The story was made by Massimo Marconi and Massimo De Vita. Since then, several other countries have gone on to capture the trophy. The boy of course became Nostradamus and the ripped pages from books explained his visions of the future. However India refused to play in the final that year in protest against the South African government's apartheid policies, thus handing South Africa a walk-over victory. The boy had to go back to his own time and his memory of the future was erased, but before that he grabbed pieces of books. Their domination was broken in 1974, when South Africa and India qualified for the final. In an Italian Mickey Mouse story, Mickey and Goofy travel back in time and by accident a young boy followed them back to the present. Up to 1973, the Davis Cup had only ever been won by the U.S.A., Great Britain, France and Australia/Australasia.

It is composed by Tonci Huljic. has won the event the most times (31), followed by Australia (23 [28 including Australasia]), France and Great Britain (9 each)[Includes British Isles 5], Sweden (7), and Australasia (5). Maksim, the cross-over piano player, plays a song entitled Nostradamus on his third CD. Since inception, the U.S.A. Rapper Nas referred to himself as Nastradamus. From 1950 to 1967, Australia dominated the competition, winning the Cup 15 times in 18 years. English singer/songwriter Al Stewart wrote a song called "Nostradamus", concerning the prophecies, for his 1973 album Past, Present, and Future. (Dwight Davis became a prominent politician in the United States in the 1920s, serving as Secretary of War from 1925-29 and as Governor General of the Philippines from 1929-32.).

In 2005, Dutch band Kayak released a rock opera called Nostradamus - Fate of Man. It was renamed the Davis Cup following the death of Dwight Davis in 1945. And in 1999, he set what was thought by some to be Nostradamus's prediction of the end of the world for soprano and chamber ensemble in The Final Prophecy. The tournament was initially known as the International Lawn Tennis Challenge. Composer Robert Steadman has twice used Nostradamus' prophecies in pieces of music: in the 1987's quatrains by Nostradamus were juxtaposed with the Latin Requiem Mass text and poems on environmental issues. By 1905 the tournament expanded to include Belgium, Austria, France, and Australasia, a combined team from Australia and New Zealand that competed together until 1913. Nostradamus has also been parodied on Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show as Negrodamus. The following year the two countries did not compete but the US won the next match in 1902.

In the science fiction series First Wave, the protagonists use the quatrains of Nostradamus to fight back against an alien invasion. The American team, of which Dwight Davis was a part, surprised the British by winning the first three matches. The television series Alias prominently features the character Milo Rambaldi, a fictional Nostradamus-like prophet. The first match, between the United States and Great Britain was held in Boston, Massachusetts in 1900. None of them can be regarded as factual or reliable. Davis, designed a tournament format and spent the money from his own pocket to purchase an appropriate sterling silver trophy. He is the subject of many films and videos, including:. Once the idea received the go ahead from the respective lawn tennis associations, one of the four Harvard players, Dwight F.

To verify the authenticity of a purported Nostradamus quatrain, compare the identifying number (e.g.: C1, Q25 or 'I.25' means Century 1, Quatrain 25) against an authoritative version of Nostradamus' works, which will probably also contain the original old French – or click on the appropriate External Links below to see facsimiles of the originals. The tournament was conceived in 1899 by four members of the Harvard University tennis team who came up with the idea of challenging the British to a tennis showdown. Nostradamus also never referred to a "third big war". . The fifth line was added by an anonymous Internet user, completely ignoring the fact that Nostradamus wrote his Propheties in rhymed four-line decasyllables called quatrains. The women's equivalent of the Davis Cup is the Fed Cup (known as the Federation Cup before 1995). For example, the phrases "City of God" (why is New York City the City of God?), "great thunder" (this could apply to just about any disaster), "Two brothers" (many things come in pairs), and "the great leader will succumb" are so ambiguous as to be meaningless. If a team has clinched the rubber before all 5 matches are played, any remaining reverse singles matches are shortened to best-of-3 sets.

Ironically enough, the research paper included this poem as an illustrative example of how the validity of prophecies is often exaggerated. All rubbers are normally best-of-5 sets. As it turns out, the first four lines were indeed written before the attacks, but by a Canadian graduate student named Neil Marshall as part of a research paper in 1997. There is no restriction on which of the playing team members plays the doubles match: the two singles players, two other players (usually doubles specialists) or a combination. Meanwhile the following spoof text was already being circulated on the Internet, along with many more elaborate variants (one of them signed 'Nostradamus 1654' – when he would, of course, have been just 150 years old!):. In the past, teams could only substitute final day singles players when the result of the tie had already been determined, but nowadays the rules allow teams to select any playing team member to play the last two singles matches provided that first day matchups are not repeated. Thus, given that Arethusa was the classical nymph of springs and rivers, with a well-known 'spring of Arethusa' still visible today in the Sicilian port of Syracuse, the case for a '9/11' interpretation was evidently unfounded. On the Thursday before play starts schedule of play is randomly drawn to decide the pairings of the nominated singles players in the first two rubbers.

For 968, similarly, Leo Marsicanus had reported in the same annals that ‘Mount Vesuvius exploded into flames and sent out huge quantities of sticky, sulfurous matter that formed a river rushing down to the sea’. The captain of each nation is able to nominate a squad of four players for each tie and he decides which of these players will compete in the first three rubbers. 40-41) and his colleagues suggested that it applied particularly to the Annales Cassini's report of its lava eruption of 1036, at a time when the Lombards of Capua and the Byzantine dukes of Naples were constantly at war over the city prior to the decisive intervention of the Normans. If the tie has already been decided in favour of one of the teams, it is common for younger lower-ranked team members to play the remaining 'dead-rubbers' in order for them to gain Davis Cup experience. Subsequent investigation by Lemesurier ([3], pp. On the third day, the final two matches are typically reverse singles in which the first-day contestants traditionally play again, but swap opponents from the first day's singles matches. 170) had already revealed (bearing in mind that, in French, faire la guerre aux rochers, or 'to make war on the rocks', simply means 'to struggle fruitlessly') that the reference was probably to Naples and its nearby volcano. A doubles match is played on the second day.

Once again, however, rather more sober investigation by Brind'Amour ([2, p. On the Friday, the first two matches are singles, generally between the two best available players of each country. Here, once again, the cité neufve was claimed to be New York; au tour de had to refer to the Twin Towers (even though, in French, the word tour in the masculine – as it is here – has absolutely nothing to do with towers); the Deux grands rochiers had to be the Twin Towers themselves; and Arethusa was (naturally!) an anagram of 'the USA'. Each World Group 'tie' between two competing nations consists of 5 matches (known as 'rubbers') carried out over the course of three days, usually Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. or, in a possible English translation:. Countries aspire to compete in the elite World Group of 16 nations which comprises four rounds of competition spread over four weekends during the year. Perhaps in frustration, the searchers now turned to quatrain I.87, which in the original 1555 edition (Albi copy) ran:. In 2005 134 nations entered teams into the competition.

– which is indeed the latitude of Naples. The largest annual team competition in sport, the Davis Cup is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. In this case, the first expression may simply be a version of. The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. 246-7; but compare Clébert) suggests that the verse is merely an undated projection into the future of the capture of Naples by the Normans in 1139 during a year marked by a notably violent eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius that is recorded in the contemporary Annales Cassini. Chile. Lemesurier ([3], pp. United States or Romania vs.

After the factual nature of these claims was widely denied, some suggested instead that the first line might refer to the actual angle at which one of the hijacked airliners hit the World Trade Center (which seemed unlikely, even if the rest had fitted). Russia. 'Five and forty degrees' was said to be the latitude of New York City (this being incorrect in itself), or was interpreted as '40.5 degrees' (even though the decimal point had not yet come into use in the Europe of Nostradamus' day); the 'New City' was claimed to be New York (even though Nostradamus refers in this way to various 'New Cities' whose names, unlike 'New York', literally mean 'New City', and especially Naples – from Greek Neapolis, 'new city'); and most of the attempts to fit in the 'Normans' seemed contrived at best. France vs. 145-6 under Sources). Switzerland or Australia. The various ways in which the enthusiasts chose to interpret the text, however, were almost universally panned by experts on the subject (compare the relevant sections of the Snopes and Lemesurier websites listed under External Links below, and see Gruber p.419 and Lemesurier [2] pp. Belarus vs.

With instant evidently a version of the Latin instanter ('violently, vehemently'), a reasonable English translation would thus appear to be:. Argentina. The nearest that they could come up with was quatrain VI.97, which in the original 1557 edition ran:. Croatia vs. In response, Nostradamus enthusiasts started searching for a Nostradamus quatrain that could be said to have done so. Slovakia 3-0 in Rancagua, Chile. Almost as soon as the event had happened, the relevant Internet sites were deluged with enquiries into whether Nostradamus had predicted the event. Chile def.

As mentioned above, this applied most recently to the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City. United States leads Romania 2-1 in La Jolla, California, United States. Certainly, there is a persistent tendency to claim that 'Nostradamus predicted whatever has just happened'. Netherlands 3-0 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Because of this, it has been claimed that Nostradamus is "100% accurate at predicting events after they happen", while the seer has acquired even more disrepute than he possibly deserves. Russia def. Not surprisingly, then, detractors see such 'edited' predictions as examples of vaticinium ex eventu, retroactive clairvoyance and selective thinking, which find non-existent patterns in ambiguous statements. Germany 3-0 in Halle, Germany.

This linguistic sleight of hand is particularly easy to carry out when the would-be commentator knows no French to start with, especially in its 16th-century form – to say nothing of French geography. France def. Nostradamus does not in fact mention any of the above specifically, not even Hitler: the name Hister, as he himself explains in his Presage for 1554, is merely the classical name for the Lower Danube, while Pau, Nay, Loron – often claimed to be an anagram of 'Napaulon Roy'– evidently refers simply to three neighboring towns in south-western France close to the seer's one-time home territory. Australia are level with Switzerland 2-2 in Geneva, Switzerland. The tradition goes right back to Nostradamus' own day, and naturally does the seer himself no favors. Spain 3-0 in Minsk, Belarus. Indeed, they regularly make similar claims regarding each new world crisis as it comes along, for the most part shamelessly twisting either the words or the events to fit (see specific examples below). Belarus def.

Nostradamus enthusiasts have credited him with predicting numerous events in world history, including the French Revolution, the atom bomb, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Sweden 3-0 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. All of them are presented in the context of the supposedly imminent end of the world – a conviction that sparked numerous collections of end-time prophecies at the time, not least an unpublished collection by Christopher Columbus. Argentina def. Some cover a single town, others several towns in several countries. Austria 3-0 in Graz, Austria. Some quatrains cover these in over-all terms; others concern a single person or small group of persons. Croatia def.

The disasters include plagues, earthquakes, wars, floods, invasions, murders, droughts, battles and many other related themes. 1900 - United States wins 3-0 over Great Britain. The bulk of the quatrains deal with disasters of various sorts. 1901 - no tournament. No fewer than five of the planets were in the same signs on both occasions. 1902 - United States wins 3-2 over Great Britain. On the basis of Nostradamus's by-now well known technique of projecting past events into the future, Lemesurier [3] suggests that X.72 therefore refers back to the restoration to health of the captive Francis I of France (who was Duke of Angoulême) following a surprise visit to his cell by his host, the then Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1525. 1903 - Great Britain wins 4-1 over the United States.

The phrase d'effraieur (of terror) in fact occurs nowhere in the original printing, which merely uses the word deffraieur (defraying, hosting). 1904 - Great Britain wins 5-0 over Belgium. The well-known prophecy that "a great and terrifying leader would come out of the sky" in 1999 and 7 months "to resuscitate the great King from Angoumois" has been much over-stated. 1905 - Great Britain wins 5-0 over the United States. This is similar to the Preterite interpretation of the Book of Revelation; John (the Divine) intended to write only about contemporary events, but over time his writings became seen as prophecies. 1906 - Great Britain wins 5-0 over the United States. Some scholars believe that Nostradamus wrote not to be a prophet, but to comment on events that were happening in his own time, writing in his elusive way – using highly metaphorical and cryptic language – in order to avoid persecution. 1907 - Australasia wins 3-2 over Great Britain.

(For Dylan see Masters Of War , As I Went Out One Morning, Gates Of Eden, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), etc.). 1908 - Australasia wins 3-2 over the United States. A good demonstration of this flexible predicting is to take lyrics written by modern songwriters (e.g., Bob Dylan) and show that they are equally "prophetic". 1909 - Australasia wins 5-0 over the United States. It has been stated, probably correctly, that no Nostradamus quatrain has ever been interpreted as predicting a specific event before it occurred beyond a very general level (e.g., a fire will occur, a war will start). 1910 - no tournament. Skeptics of Nostradamus state that his reputation as a prophet is largely manufactured by modern-day supporters who shoehorn his words into events that have either already occurred or are so imminent as to be inevitable, a process known as "retroactive clairvoyance". 1911 - Australasia wins 5-0 over the United States.

This may be due partly to popular unease about the future, partly to people's desire to see their lives in some kind of over-all cosmic perspective and so to give meaning to them – but above all, possibly, to their vagueness and lack of dating, which enables them to be wheeled out after every major dramatic event and retrospectively claimed as 'hits'. 1912 - Great Britain wins 3-2 over Australasia. Indeed, they have seldom, if ever, been out of print. 1913 - United States wins 3-2 over Great Britain. Since his death, only the Prophecies have continued to be popular, but in this case they have been quite extraordinarily so. 1914 - Australia wins 3-2 over the United States. It is a purported translation of an ancient Greek work on Egyptian hieroglyphs based on later, Latin versions, all of them unfortunately ignorant of the true meanings of the ancient Egyptian script, which was not in fact deciphered until the advent of Champollion in the 19th century. 1915 to 1918 - no tournament due to World War I.

A manuscript normally known as the Orus Apollo also exists in the Lyon municipal library, where upwards of 2000 original documents relating to Nostradamus are stored under the aegis of Michel Chomarat. 1919 - Australia wins 4-1 over Great Britain. The same book also describes the preparation of cosmetics. 1920 - United States wins 5-0 over Australia. One was an alleged "translation" of Galen, and in his so-called Traité des fardemens (basically a medical cookbook containing, once again, materials borrowed mainly from others) he included a description of the methods he used to treat the plague – none of which (not even the bloodletting) apparently worked. 1921 - United States wins 5-0 over Japan. We know that he wrote at least two books on medical science. 1922 - United States wins 4-1 over Australia.

Nostradamus was not only a diviner, but a professional healer, too. 1923 - United States wins 4-1 over Australia. See also here. 1924 - United States wins 5-0 over Australia. Often he published two or even three in a single year, entitled either Almanachs (detailed predictions), Prognostications or Presages (more generalized predictions). 1925 - United States wins 5-0 over France. The Almanacs - By far the most popular of his works, these were published annually from 1550 until his death. 1926 - United States wins 4-1 over France.

Given printing practices at the time, no two editions turned out to be identical, and it is relatively rare to find even two copies that are exactly the same. 1927 - France wins 3-2 over the United States. The third edition, with three hundred new quatrains, was reportedly printed in 1558, but nowadays only survives as part of the omnibus edition that was published after his death in 1568. 1928 - France wins 4-1 over the United States. The second, with 289 further prophetic verses, was printed in 1557. 1929 - France wins 3-2 over the United States. The first edition was published in 1555. 1930 - France wins 4-1 over the United States.

The Prophecies - In this book he collected his major, long-term divinations. 1931 - France wins 3-2 over Great Britain. In his dedication to King Henri II Nostradamus describes "emptying my soul, mind and heart of all care, worry and unease through mental calm and tranquility", but his frequent references to the "bronze tripod" of the Delphic rite are usually preceded by the words "as though". 1932 - France wins 3-2 over the United States. The popular legend that he attempted the ancient methods of flame gazing, water gazing or both simultaneously is based on an uninformed reading of his first two verses (see above), which merely liken his own efforts to those of the Delphic and Branchidic oracles. 1933 - Great Britain wins 3-2 over France. His sole description of this process is contained in letter 41 of his collected Latin correspondence, as republished by Jean Dupèbe and translated by Lemesurier [2]. 1934 - Great Britain wins 4-1 over the United States.

ritually 'sleeping on it'). 1935 - Great Britain wins 5-0 over the United States. Given that his methodology, clearly, was mainly literary, it is doubtful whether Nostradamus used any particular methods for entering a trance state, other than contemplation, meditation and incubation (i.e. 1936 - Great Britain wins 3-2 over Australia. The fact that they reportedly burned with an unnaturally brilliant flame suggests, however, that some of them were manuscripts on vellum, which was routinely treated with saltpeter. 1937 - United States wins 4-1 over Great Britain. While it is true that Nostradamus claimed in 1555 to have burned all the occult works in his library, no one can say exactly what books were destroyed in this fire. 1938 - United States wins 3-2 over Australia.

Latin versions of both had recently been published in Lyon, and extracts from both are paraphrased (in the second case almost literally) in his first two verses. 1939 - Australia wins 3-2 over the United States. Further material (see Brind'Amour, Gruber, Lemesurier [2] and [3]) was gleaned from the De honesta disciplina of 1504 by Petrus Crinitus, which included extracts from Michael Psellus's De daemonibus and the De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum..." (Concerning the mysteries of Egypt...), a book on Chaldean and Assyrian magic by Iamblichus, a 4th-century neo-Platonist. 1940 to 1945 - no tournament due to World War II. Any criticism of Nostradamus for claiming to be a prophet, in other words, would have been for doing what he never claimed to be doing in the first place. 1946 - United States wins 5-0 over Australia. Michel Nostradamus' – which, except in a few cases, they weren't, other than in the manner of their editing, expression and re-application to the future). 1947 - United States wins 4-1 over Australia.

Michel Nostradamus' – which is precisely what they were – as 'The Prophecies of M. 1948 - United States wins 5-0 over Australia. (which, in French, as easily means 'The Prophecies, by M. 1949 - United States wins 4-1 over Australia. This last is presumably why he entitled his book. 1950 - Australia wins 4-1 over United States. In translation:. 1951 - Australia wins 3-2 over the United States.

Nostradamus, it should be remembered, denied in writing on several occasions that he was a prophet on his own account. 1952 - Australia wins 4-1 over the United States. Only in the 17th century did people start to be surprised by the fact that much of his output was evidently based on earlier and often classical originals – which was no doubt why, according to the early commentator Théophile de Garencières, his Prophecies started to be used as a classroom-reader at that time. 1953 - Australia wins 3-2 over the United States. Copying from the classics in particular, often without acknowledgement, and preferably from memory, was all the rage. 1954 - United States wins 3-2 over Australia. The whole Renaissance was based on the idea. 1955 - Australia wins 5-0 over the United States.

Meanwhile, if Nostradamus' many competitors – and he had many – never accused him of copying from it, it was because copying and/or paraphrasing, far from being regarded (as it is today) as mere plagiarism, was regarded at the time as what all good, educated people should do anyway. 1956 - Australia wins 5-0 over the United States. See selected Engilsh translations from it here. 1957 - Australia wins 3-2 over the United States. The Mirabilis liber, (some of the predictions of which had already lapsed by the time Nostradamus started writing) was not translated into French until 1831 – and this mainly for scholarly and antiquarian reasons at a time when knowledge of Latin was beginning to die out. 1958 - United States wins 3-2 over Australia. Nostradamus was, in effect, one of the first to present its prophecies (and others) openly in the French vernacular – as was also happening to the Bible at the time – which is no doubt why he has retained all the credit for them. 1959 - Australia wins 3-2 over the United States.

The obvious question – why the Mirabilis liber did not sustain its influence in the way that Nostadamus’ writings did – is explained mainly by the fact that the book (like the Bible) was mostly in Latin and in Gothic script and, to make matters even more complicated for the general reader, contained many abstruse scholastic abbreviations. 1960 - Australia wins 4-1 over Italy. The book had enjoyed considerable success in the 1520s, when it went through half-a-dozen editions (see Links below for facsimiles and translations). 1961 - Australia wins 5-0 over Italy. His major prophetic source was evidently the Mirabilis liber of 1522 (Brind'Amour, Lemesurier [2] and [3]), which contained a range of prophecies by Pseudo-Methodius, the Tiburtine Sibyl, Joachim of Fiore, Savonarola and others (his Preface contains no fewer than 24 biblical quotations, all but two of them in exactly the same order as Savonarola). 1962 - Australia wins 5-0 over Mexico. (Refer to the seminal analysis of these charts by Brind'Amour, 1993, under Sources, and compare Gruber's comprehensive critique of Nostradamus’ horoscope for Crown Prince Rudolph Maximilian). 1963 - United States wins 3-2 over Australia.

Even the planetary tables, already published by professional astrologers, on which he based the birth-charts that he was unable to avoid preparing himself are easily identifiable by their detailed figures, even where (as is usually the case) he gets some of them wrong. 1964 - Australia wins 3-2 over the United States. Many of his broader astrological references, by contrast, are taken almost word-for-word from the Livre de l'estat et mutations des temps of 1549/50 by Richard Roussat. 1965 - Australia wins 4-1 over Spain. His historical sources include easily identifiable passages from Livy, Suetonius, Plutarch and a range of other classical historians, as well as from the chronicles of medieval authors such as Villehardouin and Froissart. 1966 - Australia wins 4-1 over India. Astrology itself is mentioned only twice in Nostradamus' Preface, and 41 times in the Centuries themselves, though rather more in his famously baffling dedicatory Letter to King Henri II. 1967 - Australia wins 4-1 over Spain.

It is thanks to this that his work contains so many predictions involving ancient figures such as Sulla, Marius, Nero, Hannibal and so on, as well as descriptions of "battles in the clouds" and "frogs falling from the sky". 1968 - United States wins 4-1 over Australia. Recent research (Brind'Amour [1], Prévost, Gruber, Lemesurier [2] and [3]) has suggested that most of his prophetic work was in fact based on paraphrasing collections of ancient end-of-the-world prophecies (mainly Bible-based – the end of the world was expected at the time to occur in either 1800 or 1887, or possibly in 2242, depending on the system adopted) and supplementing their insights by projecting known historical events and identifiable anthologies of omen-reports into the future with the aid of comparative horoscopy. 1969 - United States wins 5-0 over Romania. Nostradamus claimed to base his predictions on judicial astrology – the assessment of the 'astrological quality' of expected future events – but was heavily criticized by professional astrologers of the day such as Laurens Videl for his incompetence and for assuming that 'comparative horoscopy' (comparison of future planetary configurations with the astrology of known past events) could predict the actual events themselves. 1970 - United States wins 5-0 over West Germany. He was buried in the local Franciscan chapel (part of it now incorporated into the restaurant La Brocherie'), but re-interred in the Collégiale St-Laurent at the French Revolution, where his tomb remains to this day. 1971 - United States wins 3-2 over Romania.

On the evening of July 1 he is alleged to have told his secretary Jean de Chavigny, "You will not find me alive by sunrise." The next morning he was reportedly found dead, lying on the floor between his bed and a makeshift bench. 1972 - United States wins 3-2 over Romania. This was followed by a much shorter codicil. 1973 - Australia wins 5-0 over the United States. In late June he summoned his lawyer to draw up an extensive will bequeathing his property plus 3444 crowns (around $300,000 today) – minus a few debts – to his wife pending her remarriage, in trust for her sons pending their twenty-fifth birthdays and her daughters pending their marriages. 1974 - South Africa wins over India (walkover). By 1566 Nostradamus' gout, which had plagued him painfully for many years and made movement very difficult, turned into dropsy. 1975 - Sweden wins 3-2 over Czechoslovakia.

His brief imprisonment at Marignane in late 1561 came about purely because he had published his 1562 almanac without the prior permission of a bishop, contrary to a recent royal decree. 1976 - Italy wins 4-1 over Chile. In fact, his relations with the Church as a prophet and healer were always excellent. 1977 - Australia wins 3-1 over Italy. Some biographical accounts of Nostradamus' life state that he was afraid of being persecuted for heresy by the Inquisition, but neither prophecy nor astrology fell under this bracket, and he would have been in danger only if he had practiced magic to support them. 1978 - United States wins 4-1 over Great Britain. At the time, he feared that he would be beheaded, but by the time of his death in 1566, Catherine had made him Counselor and Physician-in-Ordinary to the King. 1979 - United States wins 5-0 over Italy.

After reading his almanacs for 1555, which hinted at unnamed threats to the royal family, she summoned him to Paris to explain them, and to draw up horoscopes for her children. 1980 - Czechoslovakia wins 4-1 over Italy. Catherine de Médicis, the queen consort of King Henri II of France, was one of Nostradamus' greatest admirers. 1981 - United States wins 3-1 over Argentina. Some people thought Nostradamus was a servant of evil, a fake, or insane, while many of the elite thought his quatrains were spiritually inspired prophecies. 1982 - United States wins 4-1 over France. The quatrains, published in a book titled Les Propheties ('The Prophecies'), received a mixed reaction when they were published. 1983 - Australia wins 3-2 over Sweden.

For technical reasons connected with their publication in three installments, the last fifty-eight quatrains of the seventh 'Century', or book of 100 verses, have not survived into any extant edition. 1984 - Sweden wins 4-1 over the United States. Feeling vulnerable to religious fanatics, however, he devised a method of obscuring his meaning by using "Virgilianized" syntax, word games and a mixture of languages such as Provençal, Greek, Latin and Italian. 1985 - Sweden wins 3-2 over West Germany. He then began his project of writing a book of one thousand quatrains, which constitute the largely undated prophecies for which he is most famous today. 1986 - Australia wins 3-2 over Sweden. It was mainly in reaction to the almanacs that nobility and other prominent persons from far and wide soon started asking for horoscopes and advice from him, though he generally expected them to supply the birth-charts on which the horoscopes would be based. 1987 - Sweden wins 5-0 over India.

Taken together, they are known to have contained at least 6,338 prophecies (most of them, in the event, failed predictions – see Chevignard and Lemesurier [2] under Sources), as well as at least eleven annual calendars, all of them starting on January 1 (and not, as is sometimes supposed, in March). 1988 - West Germany wins 4-1 over Sweden. He was so encouraged by its success that he decided to write one or more annually. 1989 - West Germany wins 3-2 over Sweden. Following popular trends, he wrote an almanac for 1550, for the first time Latinizing his name to 'Nostradamus'. 1990 - United States wins 3-2 over Australia. After a further visit to Italy, Nostredame began to move away from medicine and towards the occult. 1991 - France wins 3-1 over the United States.

Parts of the network remain today: thanks to much larger supplementary canals, there is even a hydroelectric station in Salon itself. 1992 - United States wins 3-1 over Switzerland. Between 1556 and 1567, Nostredame and his wife would in due course acquire a one-thirteenth share in a huge canal project organized by Adam de Craponne to irrigate largely waterless Salon and the nearby Désert de la Crau from the river Durance. 1993 - Germany wins 4-1 over Australia. Finally, in 1547, he settled down in Salon-de-Provence in the house which is still there today, and where he married a rich widow named Anne Ponsarde (nicknamed Gemelle, or 'Twinny') and eventually had six children – three daughters (Madeleine, Anne and Diane) and three sons (César, Charles and André). 1994 - Sweden wins 4-1 over Russia. On his return in 1545, he assisted the prominent physician Louis Serre in his fight against a major plague-outbreak in Marseille, and then tackled further outbreaks of disease on his own in Salon-de-Provence and in the regional capital, Aix-en-Provence. 1995 - United States wins 3-2 over Russia.

After their death he continued to travel, passing through France and possibly Italy. 1996 - France wins 3-2 over Sweden. In 1534, however, his wife and children died, presumably from the plague. 1997 - Sweden wins 5-0 over the United States. There Nostredame married a woman whose name is still in dispute (possibly Henriette d'Encausse), but who bore him two children. 1998 - Sweden wins 4-1 over Italy. In 1531 he was invited by Jules-César Scaliger, a leading Renaissance scholar, to come to Agen. 1999 - Australia wins 3-2 over France.

After his expulsion, Nostredame continued working, presumably as an apothecary (though some of his publishers and correspondents would later call him 'Doctor'), and became famous for creating a "rose pill" that was widely believed (not least by himself) to protect against the plague. 2000 - Spain wins 3-1 over Australia. 25 of Lemesurier [2] under Sources) still exists in the faculty library. 2001 - France wins 3-2 over Australia. The hand-written expulsion document (BIU Montpellier, Register S 2 folio 87 – see facsimile on p. 2002 - Russia wins 3-2 over France. He was promptly expelled again shortly afterwards, though, when it was discovered that he had been an apothecary, which was a 'manual' trade expressly banned by the university statutes. 2003 - Australia wins 3-1 over Spain.

In 1529, after some years as an apothecary, he entered the University of Montpellier to study for a doctorate in medicine. Tommy Robredo (ESP) 7-6 (8), 6-2. After little more than a year (when he would have studied the regular Trivium of grammar, rhetoric and logic, rather than the later Quadrivium of geometry, arithmetic, music and astronomy/astrology) he was forced to leave Avignon when the university closed its doors in the face of an outbreak of the plague. Mardy Fish (USA) def. It is known, however, that at the age of fifteen Nostredame entered the University of Avignon to study for his baccalaureate. Andy Roddick (USA) 6-2, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (5). Little is known about Nostredame's childhood, although there is a persistent tradition that he was educated by his maternal great-grandfather Jean de St-Rémy – which is vitiated by the equally persistent tradition that the latter died when the child was only one year old. Carlos Moyà (ESP) def.

His known siblings included Delphine, Jehan (c.1507-77), Pierre, Hector, Louis (b.1522), Bertrand, Jean and Antoine (b.1523). Juan Carlos Ferrero/Tommy Robredo (ESP) 6-0, 6-3, 6-2. His adult religious leanings suggest, however, that his upbringing was devoutly Catholic. Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan (USA) def. While practice of the ancestral religion was apparently continued in secret, nobody knows whether this applied to Nostredame's family, or whether it still applied to him two generations later. Andy Roddick (USA) 6-7 (6), 6-2, 7-6 (6), 6-2. The names of Nostredame's known forebears seem to reflect this. Rafael Nadal (ESP) def.

In this, he was merely following the example of thousands of others, thanks to increasing official French persecution of Jews, many of whom were the descendants of former refugees from Spain, where they were known as the Marranos. Mardy Fish (USA) 6-4, 6-2, 6-3. The latter's family had originally been Jewish, but Jaume's father, Guy Gassonet, had converted to Catholicism circa 1455, taking the Christian name 'Pierre' and the surname 'Nostredame' (the latter apparently from the saint's-day on which his conversion was solemnized). Carlos Moyà (ESP) def. Born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (see map) in the south of France in December 1503 (his claimed birthplace still exists), Michel de Nostredame was one of at least eight children of Reynière de St-Rémy and grain dealer Jaume de Nostredame, who was also a prosperous home-grown notary. 2004 - Spain wins 3-2 over the United States